Dell RecoverPoint vs Dell SRDF (Symmetrix Remote Data Facility ) [EOL] comparison

"RecoverPoint's most valuable feature is the automatic failover."

"The solution is very stable. Once it's installed, many customers forget they even have it."

"The most valuable feature we have found in RecoverPoint is its ability to provide the lowest RPO."

"The solution is very stable. Once it's installed, many customers forget they even have it."

"The product does block-level replication very well."

"It has improved RTO and RPO."

"We use RecoverPoint for disaster recovery and asynchronous replication, and we use the application at a block level, not the software level. This has been tested, and it's very durable."

"It can replicate data from a distant location and it can scan it as well, with continuous data replication and almost no data loss."

"The feature of taking snapshots from the replicated volumes has allowed us to use them for DR testing to validate the application consistent point of recovery."

"Customer Service: Top notch. Technical Support: Excellent."

"The SRDF solution has improved our disaster recovery RPO to near zero or less than 15 minutes with RTO getting drastically reduced."

"We've found the support to be very good overall."

"Customer service for this product was top notch."

"We've found the support to be very good overall."

"In all the companies in which I have used the product the ease of Disaster Recovery was implemented in such a manner that the risk of a site disaster was mitigated in an efficient way, and it made the migrations of complete data centers to other new data centers at other locations a piece of cake."

"Customer Service: Very good. Technical Support: Very good."

"The initial setup is complex."

"RecoverPoint's WAN optimization could be improved."

"Other hypervisors should be integrated with this system. Other hypervisors should be able to get the benefits of this solution."

"When it comes to storage and backup, that is where scalability problems have affected us."

"The new Gen5 appliances have adopted the Unisphere management interface and it is written for Adobe Flash, which in my experience, is very slow and makes administration cumbersome at times."

"Dell RecoverPoint is affordable for enterprises but not for mid-size organizations due to the required network investment for bandwidth across sites."

"It is worth mentioning that this solution is no longer supported, primarily because it doesn't replicate between two different storage systems anymore."

"I am waiting for block replication with VirtualBox."

"If you are new to the product, the initial setup might be a bit difficult."

"Our ROI was minimal, because we use it for a cold, disaster recovery method."

"The main pain point that we experienced is during device creation."

"If you are new to the product, the initial setup might be a bit difficult."

"The main pain point that we experienced is during device creation. For every newly provisioned volume, creating replication relationships between production and DR site, creating snapshots for third copy at DR site, and configuring them in appropriate replication groups and device groups means that there are lot of steps involved and a lot of room for error. There has to be a lot of checks and balances which need to be incorporated to make sure that the solution is set up correctly."

"In general, it’s very stable although some time SRDF don’t behave as expected specially if the link is not stable or saturated."

"As of late I have seen the replication drop but this was not due to the SRDF, it was due to the high rate of IO changes on the OS side."

"SRDF compared with EMC Recover Point has less capabilities, for ex. CDP (local or remote) is missing, only EMC assets compatibility, as a TCO is more expensive than implementing IBM SVC or EMC VPLEX virtualization and replication (more supported assets)."

"While I recommend Dell EMC, it depends on your specific use case. Licensing is perpetual, meaning you buy it once."

"It is considered quite costly."

"The price is moderate."

"RecoverPoint came free as an add-on to the PowerProtect Data Manager backup software from Dell EMC."

"The product is fairly priced."

"Support is an additional subscription."